Am informed today, like probably all other NC Amazon affiliates, that my account has been dropped. Thank you, NC Legislators for a really stupid piece of legislation with implications that you didn’t understand when writing this ridiculous law and probably still don’t understand today. Thanks also for hurting small businesses and entrepreneurs in North Carolina (aka “voters”).

Amazon writes,

We are writing from the Amazon Associates Program to notify you that your Associates account has been closed as of June 26, 2009. This is a direct result of the unconstitutional tax collection scheme expected to be passed any day now by the North Carolina state legislature (the General Assembly) and signed by the governor. As a result, we will no longer pay any referral fees for customers referred to Amazon.com or Endless.com after June 26. We were forced to take this unfortunate action in anticipation of actual enactment because of uncertainties surrounding the legislation’s effective date.

(06302009: fixed misspelled word)